Electric gas-lighter



E N A L W T ELECTRIC GAS LIGHTER.

No. 489,653. Patented Jan. 10, 1893.

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THOMAS IV. LANE, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE ELECTRIC GAS LIGHTING COMPANY, OF PORTLAND, MAINE.

ELECTRIC GAS-LIGHTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 489,653, dated January 10, 1893.

Application filed January 25, 1892. Serial No. 419,164. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: chain of a horizontal slotted lever operates Be it known that I, THOMAS WV. LANE, of to steady the position of the gas-cock. I con- Boston, Massachusetts, have invented a new template applying this spring in such way and useful Improvement in Electric Gasthat it Will not be held strained except dur- 55 Lighting Apparatus, and particularly in that ing the operation of opening or the operation variety in which a two-armed lever is rigidly of closing the valve; but when the valve is affixed to the gas-cock, one arm for a lever entirely opened or entirely closed, thespring and the other to carry the movable electrode, Will be in a normal position which will have of which the following is a specification. to be disturbed against the stress of the spring 60 My invention relates to improvements in in order to move the valve.

such apparatus particularly in the devices for In the drawings Figure 1 is a full front oscillating the movable lever by which the View with a leaf spring on the side, to retain gas-cock and electrode-arm are controlled. the angle lever; Fig. 2 is a full front view In such apparatus as frequently constructed without this leaf spring; Fig. 3 is a rear View 65 I 5 a fixed electrode is placed in close proximity showing the retaining leaf spring over the to the burner; a movable electrode is carried rear shoulder; Fig.4 is aplan showingthe conby one arm of a two-armed metallic lever, nection of the spring over the rear shoulder. one arm of which is vertical and the other In the drawings my improvements will be horizontal. This two-armed lever is attached readily understood. 70 to a gas-cock of the ordinary form which is Fig. 1. is a full front view of my invention to be tilted back and forth to open and close showing the gas-burner, A, having an ordithe valve. This two-armed lever is operated nary gas-cook at P, to the stem of which is by means of a horizontal slotted lever in attached at p, the two-armed metallic lever, which one arm of the two-armed lever plays E, one arm vertical, 6, carrying a flexible 75 and to each end of which horizontal lever a contact point E the other horizontal e, and chain is attached,the whole operating to turn a wire, K, depending. from the horizontal on the gas and ignite it upon pulling one arm, e. The fixed electrode is shown at 1 chain and to extinguish the gas by pulling The spring in Fig. 1. is a leaf spring, F, atthe other. tached to the block, G, and curved or bent at 80 My improvements relate, as has been said, its top at f, so as to fit over the projection, 1, particularly to the method of operating the upon the two-armed lever and be caughtwhen two-armed lever. In place of the horizontal the lever arm is depressed by the projection, slotted bar and the similar devices which have 2, upon said lever, which projection, 2, also been used by other inventors, I prefer to atcontacts with the stop, 3, by which the motion 8 5 5 tach to one end of the horizontal arm of the of the two-armed lever is limited.

two-armed lever, a slight metallic wire termi- In Figs. 2, 3, and 4, instead of theleaf spring, nating in an acorn or button by means of F, a spring, II, is arranged just over the rear which the two-armed lever may be oscillated shoulder, or washer of the gas-cock, and a lug and the gas-cock tilted at will. It is very deor projection, L, from the rear of the gascock o sirable in this variety of apparatus that it normally bears against this spring retaining should be unaffected by any ordinary jar, the gas-cock in position either wholly open or either from foot-falls, passing trains, dustentirely closed. I prefer the latter arrangeing, cleansing, or any act of carelessness; and ment of the spring as being more simple and I have therefore added-what is made also preferable in operation but either these or 5 somewhat more essential by my device for equivalent adaptations of the spring may be oscillating the movable lever than the same used within the scope of my improvement. would be with such horizontal bar-a spring The operation of my improved apparatus for the purpose of steadying the position of is so simple as to require little explanation. the gas-cock. The reason why a spring is When the gas-cock is closed a simple pull :00 perhaps more essential in my improved form upon the acorn or ball, B, upon the wire, K, is that each extremity and each ball and will cause the arm, 6, of the two armed lever,

E, to open the gas-cock and bring the vertical arm, e, past the fixed electrode so that the flexible contact point E will contact with the same and produce a spark. To turn the gas off, a slight push upon the rod Will raise the horizontal arm, 6', to position against the stress of the retaining spring and tilt thegascock so as to shut olf the gas. The motion of the two-armed lever, E, both in opening and closing, is properly adjusted by means of the stop, 3, to cause the gas-cock to rotate a proper distance only.

I do not claim to be the inventor of what is shown in earlier devices, but

What I do claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a hand lighting electric gas burner, the combination of the burner A, fixed electrode Y, two-armed lever E, having avertical arm e, and a horizontal c, and projections 1 and 2, a tilting gas-cock P, rigidly attached to said two-armed lever at about the angle thereof, a wire K, attached to the horizontal arm 6, a contact point upon the vertical arm 6, adapted to make contact With the fixed insu lated arm Y, a leaf spring F mounted upon a block G, and a stop 3, all constructed and combined as and for the purposes set forth.

2. In an electric hand lighting gas burner having a fixed electrode and a two-armed angle or bell-crank lever rigidly attached to the gas-cock and carrying the movable electrode, the combination of a lever-handle for moving said two-armed lever With a leaf spring attached to the burner body, and its free end adapted and normally tending to hold the gas-cock in either an open or in a closed position and to be strained only during the opening or closing of the gas-cock, all substantially as described.

January 20, 1891.

THOMAS W. YLANE.

\Vitnesses:

WILLIAM II. LEONARD, STEPHEN A. FosTER. 

